Fronting his own original projects from the age of Twelve Andy Started his music career proper At Abbey Road Studios as a trainee engineer but left to pursue the heady delights of playing At The Hogs Grunt and Le Beat Route with his original band which was ultimately to evolve Into The AM Band.   

 

After Three Albums and an EP the band finally dissolved into it’s constituent parts and Andy Began to look around for new musicians to play in his newly named group The Below Average White Band 

 

For a number of years he concentrated on live performances but in 1999 he began recording again under the name Andy & the Other One.  Writing performing and  Producing, Three albums and several other  projects  he has  just completed the Eleventh album which features the main line up of The Big Funk recording in Number Three Studio at Abbey Road Studios for the very first time.

 

When not busy with Big Funk and his own recording he’s found time in his busy schedule to find himself performing on various stages with the likes of  Damon Alban; Michael Ball, Natalie Cole; Brian Eno; Tony Hadley; Romena Johnson,  Katrina Leskanich (Katrina and the Waves); Lee Johns; Lemal; The London Gospel Community Choir; Barry Manilow; Jim MaCarthy (The Yardbirds); Paul Young and members of  Blue & West Life, and as a regular face with the Mark Butcher all star band he has performed several times at the Albert Hall with Paul Carrick (Ace); Charles and Eddy  Steve Harley; Roy Harper; Bill Wyman, and Elton John’s charismatic and long suffering percussionist Ray Cooper.  Among his supports are the likes of scar legend Desmond Dekker; Soul legend Edwin Starr and … Steps. 

 

Film Television, Radio and recording credits include The Evita film soundtrack, Grow Your Own Soundtrack; "Bally Kiss Angel"; "The Bill"; "Park Life", "Andrew Lloyd Webbers 50th Birthday Concert" televised live at The Albert Hall Star Search (Featuring such notable talk show sidekicks as Ed MacMann.)

Angie Brown; Carla Bruni (Radio 4); London Live (Mary Costello Live Sessions) Alexander Burke; Mushtaq; Billy Myers   Samuel Purdey; Tom Robinson and Sara Stockbridge.  Andy has also dallianced with Theatre acting, singing and playing harmonica in Only the Lonely a cheery tale of death and destruction and embracing the joy of the maudlin hits of Roy Orbison.  He has also written and produced several plays including Eternal Soufle; The Roots of Soul; D-roid Portrait of a Serial Singer and audio productions of A Global Carol; A Man called Sir Arthur; A Matter of Insignificance and The Greatest Movie Never Made broadcast as part of Radio 4’s Document Series